Quotes About Erosion

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

The cancer of time is eating us away

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

Time, the greatest thief of all.

Time is not so all-erasing as we think.

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

Time touches all things with a destroying hand.

As time passes, my story fades away.

But time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty.

Nothing could hide the tiredness of their spirit and their flesh; time had eroded their godhead. They posed and moved as charmingly as he remembered but they were like wax fruit, they could not lubricate his glands.

The materialists." "The head of General Motors or the woman buying groceries at the supermarket?" "Both. They both contribute to the erosion of those parts of life that are healthy, benevolent, and in harmony with nature. They are the water that cuts away at the sandy bank of our existence, making our foothold on this planet increasingly precarious.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

like all material things, they were not immune to the corruptions of Time and its patient, unsleeping servant, Entropy.

L'amore tra noi era reale, era solido, indistruttibile quanto la verità. Solo, c'era questo fatto del tempo che passava e io non me n'accorgevo. Il fiume del tempo, l'erosione operata dalle acque dei fiumi: ecco, il suo amore ha subito l'erosione delle acque del tempo. Ma allora, perché il mio no?

She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.

greater stress on the sacerdotal role of the clergy was part of a larger attempt to reverse the erosion, since the Reformation, of their authority over the laity.

My feelings for you...are like the stillness of the sand...they make no sound...as they're washed away.

Not a passing phenomenon nor an external force, the companies had become a way of life, a part of society itself, used and joined by its rulers even as they struggled to throw them off. They ate at society from within like Erysichthon, the "tearer up of earth," who, having destroyed the trees in the sacred grove of Demeter, was cursed by the goddess with an insatiable appetite and finally devoured himself attempting to satisfy his hunger. Discipline

This suggests that Palestine already had begun to suffer the soil erosion that during the centuries of Arab cultivation reduced it from the one-time land of milk and honey to a stony goat pasture. Saewulf

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.

To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.

Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.